525 days ago
by Karson |
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Today at the Mason – Dixon Woodworking Toy workshop I was making the plastic windows for our Train bank. We usually make 105 or so of each item. and 1000 – 1200 total that are distributed at Christmas time.
Here is the toy bank.
The plastic window is inserted in a whole drilled into the sides of the bank and is held with screws. The window is the only way to take the money out of the bank.
First we cut the Plexiglas circle with the center bit removed from the hole saw. a ...
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552 days ago
by John Nixon |
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With the aid of my motorized router lift, I can create medium to large circles on the router table easily.
Forget that router trammel or bandsaw circle jig, with this method, you can make circles on your router table with no dust and no fuss.
This method is safer, cleaner and more accurate than many other methods. If you have a router table with a miter slot, check out this setup!
The scale is based on the pythagoream thoreom. THe hypotenuse of a right triangle is changed to alter ...
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554 days ago
by Karson |
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Circle Drilling Jig
I did not design this jig. I didn’t make this jig. But I’ve been using it for the last couple of weeks, and I thought that I’d post it as an ingenious drilling jig.
It was designed and made by John Nole of our Mason Dixon Woodworkers Club. He passed away about a month ago, so in memoriam I wanted to post this jig that he designed.
John was a machinist by trade and owned his own machine shop. So he was always looking for ways to make repetitive tasks easier and fas...
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